Via
Reuters:
Army dumps general for ‘personal
misconduct’The four-star general who headed the U.S. Army’s training program has been
relieved of his duties for unspecified “personal misconduct” after a probe by
criminal investigators, the Army said on Tuesday.Gen. Kevin Byrnes was fired from his position as commanding general of the
Army Training and Doctrine Command, the Army said. Army officials did not rule
out the possibility of criminal charges.“The investigation upon which this relief is based is undergoing further
review to determine the appropriate final disposition of this matter,” the
Army said in a statement.
This is the same General who decided during the Iraq war it would be
important to send Army personnel such as cooks and mechanics to the front lines.
While this has been a somewhat common approach in the Marines, it is a rare
occurrence in the Army. Take this quote from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which
appeared on September 7, 2003:
“We’ve become too specialized. Ask a junior enlisted who they are,
and they’ll tell you, `I’m a mechanic,’ not I’m a soldier. We need to change
that culturally in the Army.”
I wonder what other training this General was in charge of? Perhaps he also
did some training for prisoner handling and interrogation techniques at Abu
Gharib. Time will hopefully tell.